If anyone (interviewers, friends, parents, etc.) asks you to explain what consulting is all about, try the following:"Sturdy (1997)... rejected portrayals of managers as vulnerable beings searching for apparently technical solutions and/or existential security. He draws attention to client resistance and the pressures of consultancy given their mixed fortunes as agents of capital, and intra-management conflicts over transforming managerial work and discourses. He portrays consultancy as a dialectical, yet structurally and existentially self-defeating process."Courtesy of page 217 of the Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 1 by Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood and Michael D. Shields.

Nonesense!

I'll give you some free consulting advice... on how to spell "nonsense".

Sounds like it was written by ZB.

consulting is a system of temporarily transferable indentured labour...

On my first day in executive-search I overheard quite an interesting definition."A management consultant is someone who; when you ask for the time, will use your wristwatch to tell you and then keep the watch"Thought provoking.

Headhunter...quite true. But I'll let you in on a secret: it's because the client is either too dumb to understand how to read the time, or too lazy or busy to check it themselves.